The Mandela Effect
8 artists reflect on the distortion and gradual decline of collective memory
In 2010, blogger Fiona Broome uses the term 'Mandela Effect' to describe a false collective memory that she discovered in Dragon Con, which led herself and others to the beleif that the south African president Nelson Mandela had died during his imprisonment in the 80s.
In 2010 blogger Fiona Broome attends Dragon Con. The entry referring to the Mandela Effect remained an active link at Wikipedia for exactly 28 minutes before its deletion, a few months before the convention.
In 2010 blogger Fiona Broome discovers that she suffers from early onset alzheimer's.
An interesting fact is that the power of entropy, the drain of the universe, is present in every phase of existence.
A second interesting fact is that is that the only known species in complete denial of the previous fact are humans and Japanese wasps.
A third interesting fact is that false memories, propaganda, disorientation, the wrong story, errors in perception and normalcy, minor blurs in the details of the narrative, are nothing more than signs of entropy – gradual decline of the collective memory; the final filter of any civilization that ever existed.
No one knows how to repair that which he can't recall.
The participating artists of this exhibition are called upon, from their own parallel dimensions, to develop a creative context of Swiss time-space and null determinism, in which they will reflect on the question, what is really happening? From this specific perspective of reality, the artworks due to existential paradox deceive, corrupt and mislead, while from these collective distortions, artists document memory and its discrepancy.
Participating artists: Eleanna Balesi, Giannis Delagrammatikas, Katerina Fani, Ilias Mavrovas, Dafnie Monastirioti, Yiannis Sinioroglou, Orfeas Souris, Vaggelis Savvas.
Curated by: Alexandros Platis
Opening: Thursday, October 5, 20:00
Duration: October 5 – 25.2017
Visiting hours: Tuesday - Friday 17:00 - 21:00, Saturday 12:00 - 17:00
CHEAPART
25 A. Metaxa, Athens 106 81
